A photo of 11-year-old Caroline with Macaroni later inspired singer-songwriter Neil Diamond to write “Sweet Caroline,” a fact he didn’t reveal until performing his No. 1 hit for her 50th birthday in 2007. Here’s a video of Diamond performing the song earlier this year at Boston’s Fenway Park and, below that, a video of Elvis Presley’s 1970 cover of the song:

As a student at Radcliffe College in the late 1970s, Kennedy reportedly considered becoming a photojournalist but soon, according to People magazine, “realized she could never make her living observing other people because they were too busy watching her.”

In the summer of 1977, Kennedy served as an intern for the New York Daily News, where she earned $156 a week, by one account, “fetching coffee for harried editors and reporters, changing typewriter ribbons and delivering messages.”

Soon after Elvis Presley died in August 1977, Kennedy wrote a story for Rolling Stone magazine about her visit to Graceland, where she met Elvis’ widow (Priscilla Presley), father (Vernon Presley) and rhythm guitarist (Charlie Hodge).

She was the maid of honor at the 1986 wedding of Maria Shriver (her cousin) and Arnold Schwarzenegger.